![]() There's also the little matter of this city's history, namely it was the home of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL Club, which went to ruin - and prison - during the organization's money-and-sex scandals of the late 1980s. BUT, here's the problem, which neither Furtick nor his lawyer are addressing: When you are a self-professed "man of God," you are assumed to have a higher calling then, say, an investment banker - particularly if you're an ostensibly Christian pastor, since Jesus made kind of a big deal about helping the poor and not being a show-off and the like. ![]() OK, some are saying, doesn't Furtick have every right to spend his money the way he wants as long as it's legal? Of course he does. The attorney also says Furtick is using money he has made, and hopes to make, from sales of his books to purchase the property "and it's not tied to the church in any way." Except, of course, that without the church, nobody would buy Furtick's books. "It'll be local moms coming together to breastfeed their babies where that mother (Zilliken) was kicked out," said Tauro, 27, who has two children, ages 1 and 8, and works as a birth doula – a person hired to offer support to mothers before, during and after labor.The property's tax value is $1.6 million, but before you start thinking Furtick is fleecing church members, remember that the 33-year-old quasi-hipster pastor's lawyer told the O that just a measly 8,400 square feet of the house will be heated. worship service at Elevation's Ballantyne campus. ![]() That's when a volunteer approached her, Zilliken said, turned on a flashlight in the dark auditorium and asked that Zilliken follow her to the "mother's area."Īnd yet, Zilliken said, the volunteer told her, "Honey, you have to understand that my job as a volunteer is to make sure everyone is comfortable, not just you."Įlevation added in its statement: "We have several designated areas for nursing moms at Ballantyne specifically – one private to allow pumping and it's close to the auditorium for convenience and the other in the actual baby area with a TV to allow mothers to still be part of the worship experience."Īriel Tauro, a breastfeeding activist in New Jersey, saw Zilliken's Facebook post Sunday, reached out to her, and has since been working with Zilliken and other Charlotte-area mothers to organize the "Nurse-In." Tauro said the plan is for it to happen Sunday, Aug. From there, she thought, she could quickly exit in case Idamae caused any disturbance during the service.Īs she's done many times before, Zilliken said, she then waited until Furtick's sermon to begin breastfeeding "so she's quiet." Then she went to the church auditorium's second floor, headed for the last row and took the seat nearest the door. Zilliken said she dropped off her two other children – ages 5 and 4 – at the church's eKidz child-care area. Zilliken said she did last Sunday what she's always done since the birth of her youngest child, Idamae, who's now 4 months old and breastfeeding. Furtick, who launched the Southern Baptist church with wife Holly and seven other couples in 2006, speaks most Sundays in person at the Ballantyne campus. Elevation, one of the fastest growing churches in the country, draws more than 20,000 worshipers to its nine Charlotte-area sites every weekend.
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